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me. And Jesus stood and com-[sinner, but rather that he shouta manded him to be brought unto turn from his sin, and be saved; him: and when he was come mercifully forgive us our tresnear, he asked him, saying, What passes; receive and comfort us, wilt thou that I should do unto who are grieved and wearied thee? And he said, Lord, that I with the burden of our sins. Thy may receive my sight. And Je-property is always to have mersus said unto him, Receive thy cy; to thee only it appertaineth sight; thy faith hath saved thee. to forgive sins: spare us thereAnd immediately he received his fore, good Lord, spare thy peosight, and followed him, glorify-ple, whom thou hast redeemed: ing God and all the people, enter not into judgment with thy when they saw it, gave praise servants, who are vile earth, and unto God,

The first day of Lent, commonly
called Ash-Wednesday.
The Collect.

T Then shall the People say this that
followeth, after the Minister.
URN thou us, O good Lord,

miserable sinners; but so turn thine anger from us, who meekly acknowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults; and ALMIGHTY and everlasting so make haste to help us in this God. who hatest nothing that world, that we may ever live thou hast made, and dost forgive with thee in the world to come, the sins of all those who are pethrough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. nilent: create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of Be favourable, O Lord, be favour. all mercy, perfect remission and able to thy people, who turn to forgiveness, through Jesus Christ thee in weeping, fasting and pray. ing. For thou art a merciful This Collect is to be reed every day in God, full of compassion, long sufLent, after the Collect appointed for the day. fering, and of great pity. Thou At Morning Prayer, the Litany being sparest when we deserve punishended, shall be said the following Pray-ment, and in thy wrath thinkest ers, immediately before the general upon mercy. Spare thy people, Thanksgiving.

our Lord. Amen.

and so shall we be turned.

Lord, we beseech thee, mer-good Lord, spare them; and let cifully hear our prayers, and not thine heritage be brought to spare all those who confess their confusion. Hear us, O Lord, for sins unto thee; that they, whose thy mercy is great; and after the consciences by sin are accused. multitude of thy mercies look by thy merciful pardon may be upon us, through the merits and absolved, through Christ our mediation of thy blessed Son, Lord. Amen. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Most mighty God, and mer

For the Epistle. Joel, ii. 12:

ciful Father, who hast com-TURN ye even to me, saith the passion upon all men, and hatest Lord, with all your heart, nothing that thou hast made; and with fasting, and with weepwho wouldest not the death of aling, and with mourning

And

The first Sunday in Lent.
The Collect

tend your heart, and not your through nor steal: For where garments, and turn unto the Lord your treasure is, there will your your God: for he is gracious and heart be also. merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return, and repent, and Lord, who for our sake didst leave a blessing behind him, even fast forty days and forty a meat-offering and a drink-of-nights; give us grace to use such fering unto the Lord your God? abstinence, that our flesh being Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanc-subdued to the Spirit, we may tify a fast, call a solemn assem-lever obey thy godly motions in bly, gather the people, sanetify righteousness and true holiness, the congregation, assemble the to thy honour and glory, who elders, gather the children and livest and reignest with the Fathose that suck the breasts; let ther and the Holy Ghost, one the bridegroom go forth of his God, world without end. Amen chamber, and the bride out of The Epistle. 2 Cor. vi. 1. her closet; let the priests, the WE then, as workers together ministers of the Lord, weep be- with him, beseech you also, tween the porch and the altar, that ye receive not the grace of and let them say, Spare thy peo- God in vain : (For he saith, I have ple, O Lord, and give not thine heard thee in a time accepted, heritage to reproach, that the land in the day of salvation have heathen should rule over them I succoured thee: behold, now is wherefore should they say among the accepted time; behold, now the people, Where is their God? is the day of salvation) giving no The Gospel. St. Matt. vi. 16. offence in any thing, that the miWHEN ye fast, be not as the nistry be not blamed; but in a!!

hypocrites, of a sad counte- things approving ourselves as the nance: for they disfigure their ministers of God, in much pafaces, that they may appear unto tience, in afflictions, in necesmen to fast. Verily I say unto sities, in distresses, in stripes, in you, they have their reward. But imprisonments, in tumults, in iathon, when thou fastest, anoint bours, in watchings, in fastings; thine head, and wash thy face, by pureness, by knowledge, by that thou appear not unto men long-suffering, by kindness, by to fast, but unto thy Father which the Holy Ghost, by love unfeign is in secret; and thy Father which ed, by the word of truth, by the seeth in secret, shall reward thee power of God, by the armour of openly. Lay not up for yourselves righteousness on the right hand treasures upon earth, where moth and on the left, by honour and and rust doth corrupt, and where dishonour, by evil report and thieves break through and steal: good report; as deceivers, and But lay up for yourselves trea- yet true; as unknown, and yet sures in heaven, where neither well known; as dying, and bemoth nor rust doth corrupt, and hold we live; as chastened, and where thieves do not break not killed; as sorrowful, yet al

way rejoicing; as poor, yet mak- ourselves to help ourselves; keep ing many rich; as having nothing, us both outwardly in our bodies, and yet possessing all things. and inwardly in our souls; that The Gospel. St. Matt. iv. 1. we may be defended from all THEN was Jesus led up of the adversities which may happen spirit into the wilderness, to to the body, and from all evil be tempted of the devil: And thoughts which may assault and when he had fasted forty days hurt the soul, through Jesus Christ and forty nights, he was after-our Lord. Amen.

ward an hungered. And when the The Epistle. 1 Thess. iv. 1. tempter came to him. he said, If WE beseech you, brethren thou be the Son of God, command and exhort you by the Lore that these stones be made bread. Jesus, that as ye have received a But he answered and said, It is us how ye ought to walk, and t written, Man shall not live by please God, so ye would aboune bread alone, but by every word more and more. For ye know that proceedeth out of the mouth what commandments we gave of God. Then the devil taketh you by the Lord Jesus. For this him up into the holy city, and is the will of God, even your setteth him on a pinnacle of the sanctification, that ye should abtemple, and saith unto him, If stain from fornication; that every thou be the Son of God, cast thy-one of you should know how to self down; for it is written, He possess his vessel in sanctification shall give his angels charge con- and honour; not in the lust of cerning thee; and in their hands concupiscence, even as the Genthey shall bear thee up, lest at tiles which know not God: that any time thou dash thy foot no man go beyond and defraud against a stone. Jesus said unto his brother in any matter; behim, it is written again, Thou cause that the Lord is the avengshalt not tempt the Lord thy God. er of all such, as we also have Again the devil taketh him up forewarned you and testified. For into an exceeding high moun-God hath not called us unto untain, and showeth him all the cleanness, but unto holiness. He kingdoms of the world, and the therefore that despiseth, despiseth glory of them; and saith unto not man, but God, who hath also him, All these things will I give given unto us his Holy Spirit. thee, if thou will fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus The Gospel. St. Matt. xv. 21. unto hiin, Get thee hence, Satan ; JESUS went thence, and defor it is written, Thou shalt wor- parted into the coasts of Tyre ship the Lord thy God, and him and Sidon. And behold, a woman only shalt thou serve. Then the de-of Canaan came out of the same vil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

The second Sunday in Lent.
The Collect.

coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, throu Son of David: my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil But he answered her not a word

ALMIGHTY God, who seest And his disciples came and hethat we have no power of sought him saying Send her

away; for she crieth after us. cometh the wrath of God upon But he answered and said, I am the children of disobedience. Be not sent but unto the lost sheep not ye therefore partakers with of the house of Israel. Then them; for ye were sometimes came she and worshipped him, darkness, but now are ye light in saying, Lord, help me. But he the Lord: walk as children of answered, and said, It is not meet light; (For the fruit of the spirit to take the children's bread, and is in all goodness, and righteousto cast it to dogs. And she said, ness, and truth) proving what is Truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of acceptable unto the Lord. And the crumbs which fall from their have no fellowship with the unmaster's table. Then Jesus an- fruitful works of darkness, but swered and said unto her, O wo-rather reprove them. For it is man, great is thy faith: be it unto a shame even to speak of those thee even as thou wilt. And her things which are done of them in daughter was made whole from secret. But all things that are that very hour.

The third Sunday in Lent.
The Collect.

reproved, are made manifest by the light; for whatsoever doth make manifest, is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that

WE beseech thee, Almighty sleepest, and arise from the dead, God, look upon the hearty and Christ shall give thee light. desires of thy humble servants, The Gospel. St. Luke, xi. 14. and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty, to be our defence JESUS was casting out a devil, against all our enemies, through to pass, when the devil was gone Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. out, the dumb spake; and the

and it was dumb. And it came

The Epistle. Ephes. v. 1. people wondered. But some of BE ye therefore followers of them said, He casteth out devils

God, as dear children; and through Beelzebub, the chief of walk in love, as Christ also hath the devils. And others tempting loved us, and hath given himself him, sought of him a sign from for us, an offering and a sacrifice heaven. But he, knowing their to God, for a sweet smelling sa-thoughts, said unto them, Every vour. But fornication and all un-kingdom divided against itself, is cleanness, or covetousness, let it brought to desolation; and a not be once named amongst you, house divided against a house, fallas becometh saints; neither filthi-eth. If Satan also be divided ness, nor foolish talking, nor jest-against himself, how shall his ing, which are not convenient; kingdom stand? because ye say but rather giving of thanks. For that I cast out devils through Beelthis ye know, that no whore-zebub. And if I by Beelzebub monger, nor unclean person, nor cast out devils, by whom do your covetous man, who is an idolater, sons cast them out? therefore hath any inheritance in the king-shall they be your judges. But dom of Christ, and of God. Let if I with the finger of God cast ao man deceive you with vain out devils, no doubt the kingdom words for because of these things of God is come upon you. When

a strong man armed keepeth his of the bond-woman was born at palace, his goods are in peace; ter the flesh; but he of the free but when a stronger than he shall woman was by promise. Which come upon him and overcome things are an allegory: for these him, he taketh from him all his are the two covenants; the one armour wherein he trusted, and from Mount Sinai, which gendivideth his spoils. He that is dereth to bondage, which is Agar. not with me, is against me; and For this Agar is Mount Sinai in he that gathereth not with me, Arabia, and answereth to Jerusascattereth. When the unclean lem which now is, and is in bondspirit is gone out of a man, he age with her children. But Jewalketh through dry places, seek-rusalem which is above, is free ing rest; and finding none, he which is the mother of us all. For saith, I will return unto my house it is written, Rejoice, thou barren whence I came out. And when that barest not; break forth and he cometh, he findeth it swept cry, thou that travailest not; for and garnished. Then goeth he, the desolate hath many more chiland taketh to him seven other dren than she which hath an hus spirits more wicked than himself, band. Now we, brethren, as Isaac and they enter in, and dwell was, are the children of promise. there; and the last state of that But as then, he that was born man is worse than the first. And after the flesh persecuted him it came to pass, as he spake these that was born after the spirit things, a certain woman of the even so it is now. Nevertheless, company lift up her voice, and what saith the Scripture? Cast said unto him, Blessed is the out the bond-woman and her son; womb that bare thee, and the for the son of the bond-woman paps which thou hast sucked. shall not be heir with the son of But he said, Yea, rather blessed the free-woman. So then, brethare they that hear the word of ren, we are not children of the God, and keep it. bond-woman, but of the free. The Gospel. St. John, vi. I. JESUS went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of

The fourth Sunday in Lent.
The Collect.

GRANT we beseech thee, Al-Tiberias. And a great multitude mighty God, that we, who followed him, because they saw for our evil deeds do worthily de- his miracles which he did on them serve to be punished, by the com- that were diseased. And Jesus fort of thy grace may mercifully went up into a mountain, and be relieved, through our Lord there he sat with his disciples and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. And the passover, a feast of the

The Epistle. Gal. iv. 21. Jews, was nigh. When Jesus TELL me, ye that desire to be then lift up his eyes, and saw a

under the law, do ye not great company coming unto him, hear the law? For it is written, he saith unto Philip, Whence that Abraham had two sons, the shall we buy bread that these one by a bond-maid, the other by may eat? (And this he said to a free-woman. But he who was nrove him; for he himself kney

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